roger needs to win 72 more times to break another record too. but he can do it. jon: i guess he won't have any trouble paying for grad school. good for him. jenna: "america live" starts right now. megyn: hi, everybody, fox news alert big news on tea party candidate christine o'donnell the winner of last night's republican primary in delaware. welcome to "america live" on wednesday i'm megyn kelly. we are less than 24 hours now since the national republican senatorial committee said it would not support o'donnell's canned today's see. we are learning of a change of heart. they now say they will stand biotkopbl, a 180-degree turn. here is how the news broke. >> this is fox news alert. christine o'donnell's win is not the only stunner tonight.

>> reporter: even as christine o'donnell is accepting this victory in delaware carl cameron is reporting from sources at the national republican campaign committee that the nrsc, will not, will not support christine o'donnell in delaware in her general election campaign against chris coons, the democrat in november. these sources telling carl that she would win in november as well. megyn: less than an hour ago the chairman, cornyn spoke to fox ao*ps trish turner at the capitol with a very different message. >> reporter: i don't know, i don't know. a lot of people thought she could not win last night and she did win against a very popular congressman, so i wouldn't under estimate her a bit. i talked to her on the phone this morning and told her we were committed to supporting her campaign. and she welcomed that. we will be getting together at

the end of this week to visit and talk about what other help we can provide to her. megyn: chris stierwall is a fox news editor and my guest. this is a major reversal isn't it. >> reporter: this is washington and politics. as we like to say down here, it's complicated. megyn: really, what is so complicated about it? first they said they weren't going to support her. over the past 18 hours as more and more republican supporters of o'donnell came out and called them a bunch of babies for not getting behind the candidate that they didn't want to win they've reversed themselves. >> reporter: look, what we heard last night and everybody was hearing this in one degree or another and looking at, will the national republican senatorial committee come in and land a big punch and christine o'donnell's behalf? remember that the national party leaned hard against her during the primary. they pushed back very hard against o'donnell.

they threw hard punches. mike castle threw very hard punches against her and this was acrimonious. remember they have been in general election mode at the national republican party for a longtime on this race. they have been thinking about the fall and counting castle's win. i think what happened last night is o'donnell's victoria tree, not just the fact that she won but the size of the victory took republicans off guard, caught them off guard and the first reaction from party insiders, and i can back this up in the people we talked to for the power play, they say we are not with her, we are not doing this. then, this is what we understand, as the day goes on as time passes, two things happen, one democrats try to capitalize on this, democrats start beating republicans up over this, you're divided. megyn: civil war. >> reporter: you're tearing each other apart. the other thing that happens is christine o'donnell makes the rounds on shows, goes around and talks to folks and presents well and seems reasonable. so what she's got now and this is an important distinction to make, what she's got now is the

check off. okay you are fine, we are going to send you a cash contribution and you're in. what she doesn't have, and what she may yet need in order to be competitive in this race where she is probably going to have low name id in the state, she is going to need external spending, she is going to need the nrc and national republican groups to come in and spend money in state in third party and independent expenditures. she is not there yet. she has the first part, we are endorsing you, we are on board but she doesn't have the second part, the big money that she needs to be competitive. megyn: they are going to give her a check of 42,000 dollars, according to john cornyn, but they are not going to commit to the other part. it smells like sour grapes, they wanted the other guy, their guy castle didn't win. she is a republican, she is a tea party republican, though. now they have somebody who is in the gop nominee seat. it doesn't happen to be the person they wanted.

to me it feels like this. >> reporter: well i'm not in a position to make any such gesture as that. i will say this, i think you're onto something. it's very hard for people who come up with a plan and are ready to execute to find out that the voters think a different way. and i think what republicans have learned over difficult cycles in 2004, 2006 and 2008, when it comes to, when the base is fired up for a candidate if the national party tries to suppress that it backfires. so i think for republicans the lesson that they've learned is give the people that they want, if the voters say this, just go with it and don't try to fight back, because the consequence is a disspirited base. and right now the thing that's got republicans looking at big gains this fall is how fired up their base is and they don't want to do anything to take away from there. megyn: did you ever get really angry at somebody, they send you a nasty email and you're just

ticked off and you fire off this mean email in response, and you say i shouldn't have done that. or you let a day pass and say, oh, thank god i didn't send that. whoever sent the information out to reporters last night is having one of those moments. >> reporter: i call it the brady bill for emails you need a three-day cooling off period before saying anything inflammatory. megyn: thank you so much. it's coming down to the last batch of votes in new hampshire's primary. it has not yet been decided. you've got the former attorney general kelly ayotte on one side. she is moving ahead of ovide lamontagne, slightly ahead of him. 1100 votes separating them at last glance. she is the one with the support of the stabment there, the republican party, not to mention former alaska governor sarah palin who endorsed her but that was before this ovide lamontagne really made his surge and he is the tea party favorite.

so we will update you on any developments from this race as we get them. and don't forget, folks, fox news is america's election headquarters, on tv, online on the go. you can go to foxnews.com for all the low down on yesterday's primary races, or, you know, you could just keep it right here where i'm giving it to you right now. but if you want it simultaneously to be read and heard foxnews.com. this is fox news alert on a story that is getting a lot of attention today for anybody who has ever been on an airplane. a u.s. pilot busted, u.s. pilot busted for showing up to work drunk. it's not like he just had to fill out paperwork that day either. he got behind the wheel. the incident taking place yesterday moments before a delta flight was supposed to leave from amsterdam to new jersey. international flight, pilot is drunk. now we're learning this guy pwo have been fine to fly if he had

been taking off from new jersey for amsterdam. why is that? trace gallagher is live in our west coast newsroom. trace. >> reporter: can you imagine, megyn being the pilot of this 767, you're in amsterdam, you're taxing toward the runway, you look in your rear view mirror and the cops are pulling you over? that's what happened. the cops got an anonymous message that this guy was drinking, they pulled him over. the pilot has not been identified. he was flying a 767 like the one you see here. this is not the exact one. the pilot is 52 years old from woodbury, new jersey that's all we know. 196 passengers on board. the dutch pilot, or dutch police actually pulled the pilot off the plane and gave him a breathalyzer test as he was about to fly from amsterdam to new jersey and they released a statement saying, and i'm quoting here. he appeared to have consumed too many alcoholic beverages. the word they used was

beshonken, that's dutch for he was drunk. but was he? his blood/alcohol level was .023. here is a chart. if you're going to drive the legal limit is .08. three times higher than the pilot's blood/alcohol level. the faa maximum level in the united states is .04, that's the old adage, eight hours from bottle to throttle. now look, delta has a firmer policy, delta's is 24 hours and they don't want any alcohol in your bloodstream but different airlines have different policies. the pilot paid a $911 fine in the netherlands. he has now been suspended. he broke the company policy, but the laws of this country say that he was not beshonken, he was not drunk when he got behind the controls of that plane, megyn. megyn: wow, that makes some people ask whether we should be tightening the policy in this

count tee or will he be fine if he gets behind the wheel of a plane. i like to get beshonken when i'm the passenger. >> reporter: me too, i don't want my pilot drinking either. clearly he was not drunk behind the plane. megyn: significanting, thank you, trace. folks we've got breaking news right now on the scandal over city salaries in bell california. moments ago word coming in on possible criminal charges for the town leaders who paid themselves millions while the taxpayers struggled mightily. and house speaker nancy pelosi says she is confident the democrats will hold onto the house this november. thanks in part to the great job she says they did with those town halls last summer. monica crowley next with a reality check. [singing] our house, in the middle of your street.

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>> even if you offer to work for nothing you were a crook yesterday, you're a crook today and you'll be a crook tomorrow. >> you all need to go to jail so we don't have to pay you one penny. megyn: outraged taxpayers in bell, california following a city salary scandal. now there is new legal fallout from this matter. a live look at a news conference in los angeles, there is the california attorney general jerry brown who would like to be the governor. he is expected to announce new legal action as a result of this scandal. residents were shocked to learn that the city officials there in this small taupb were taking home -- were taking home six-figure salaries. 6 to $800,000 a year, while one in six bell residents lived in poverty for managing this tiny little town. we'll bring you an update on the

story as we get it from mr. brown. well, house speaker nancy pelosi has been awfully silent yesterday, i mean lately, until yesterday when she boldly predicted that despite the polls democrats will hold onto their majority in the house in november praising in particular the great job her members did last summer at those town halls. take a listen. >> i feel pretty confident about the caliber of our candidates, our members are battle tested, they've won these districts before, they will win them again, i'm not yielding one grain of sand. i want to have the same big strong majority we have. but i feel certain that we will. last summer was a tough summer and our members saved the healthcare bill by going out, having a couple of thousand of town meetings and other public events in order to communicate with their members. megyn: monica crowley is a radio

talk show host and a fox news contributor and my guest now. she is very proud of the job they did, saving the healthcare bill and she thinks shell hold on to the house do you think that is rhetoric or real for her. >> reporter: i think the house speaker is engaged in tremendous selfdelusion. i can't say i blame her, her house majority is in very, very deep jeopardy heading into november. she is talking about the taupb halls from last year when her democratic members got blistered every which way to tuesday over obamacare. they turn around, they vote for it, the president signs it into law now the american people are struck with this money tros tee. when you look at the polls, 60 to 70% of the american people, huge majority, not just republicans and conservatives, a lot of independents and democrats are unhappy with this bill. megyn: 53% want it repealed. the the approval rating is 38%. >> reporter: it's pretty bad. for the house generally it's about 11%, nancy pelosi is about

15% job approval. she is trying to spin this. megyn: granted she was sort of ticking off the great things that the democrats has done. this is one of the thins that she thinks will keep them in office. this is one of the things she mentions, which is so interesting to me because no democrats are running on this. they have been -- it's gone radio silent, crickets when it comes to the healthcare law leading up to the midterm except from those who voted against it. now she comes out and says they saved healthcare. why would she want to get that back in the polls. >> reporter: they are proud over the last year of and a half they have gone over this penitentiary-up hreub ra list eupl. and they got the dream of universal healthcare through. the problem is the american people are rejecting this wholesale. as you mentioned about 53, 55% one this repealed.

not a single democrat, not even speaker pelosi is running an ad touting their vote for obamacare. that tells you they understand how incredibly unpopular this is. right before they passed it former president bill clinton made a prediction that once they passed it you would see a bump up in all of their job aeu profls, including the president and so on by ten points. guess what the job approval numbers and the numbers on obamacare have gone in the other direction, way down. that's why all of these democrats, none of them are really holding townhalls this summer. megyn: is this just a blatant disconnect between the speaker and the electri -- elect right - electorate. >> reporter: she is going to get reelected. it's her speaker ship that is on the line here. she will get reelected. she honest to god believes they did the right thing with obamacare. president obama believes with his ole being that they did the

right thing with obamacare. they are touting it because they are proud of it. megyn: is she off message? there is a reason democrats have been steering clear of this. the voters don't want to hear it. they don't like this healthcare bill, rightfully or wrongfully, they don't like it they don't want it mentioned. the house speaker's house is on the line. if you don't like nancy pelosi you don't like healthcare you might be inspired to vote for republican democrats, why would she dangle that red meat in front of the voters seven weeks before she's trying to get elected. >> reporter: there is something bike a 25 to 30 point gap in enthusiasm and between democrats and republicans going into this election. she wants to say we passed this great liberal deem of universal healthcare, get out there and reward us for us. you cannot win a general election with 20% of the liberal vote, you need independents

s, republicans and democrats. and they are fleeing the scene of of the accident. megyn: i have to ask you before i let you go what you think of this nrsc reversing itself saying we will give christine o'donnell 42,000 tkhrard even though we told her last night she better rely on the tea party. >> reporter: they better change their tune on all the candidates that have succeeded in this process and are now the republican candidates for all of the offices across the board. in this year when anything could happen they better stop bad-mouthing and trash talking christine o'donnell and anybody else they might have a little bit of a problem with because they are not establishment and professional politics. the bulk of the american people are with christine o'donnell, they are with joe miller in alaska, they are with sharon angle. the republican establishment better learn their lesson here and start listening to the american people. the american people are the ones putting up these candidates.

they want representative government, we haven't had it in a longtime not just from the democrats but from a lot of people in the gop establishment too. megyn: the american people have been told for more than a year now, you are stupid, you are stupid we know better and they are getting tired of it. >> reporter: its pay-back time. megyn: always interesting. thank you, lady. we've seen a lot of car chases over the year. this one was apprise winner, crashess, guns and speeds stopping a hundred miles an hour. wait until you see what this guy does at the end of this chase. a new front in chris christie's war with unions. he wants to rollback state pentagons just a bit here and there to save the state's budget and save the very pensions. its turning out to be a very tough fight. the taxpayers versus the public unions, just ahead. >> i stood here and very respectfully listened to you. if you what you want to do is put on a show and giggle every time i talk then i have no

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megyn: fox news election alert the associated press is now reporting that kelly ayotte is the winner of new hampshire's primary. she is the state's former attorney general. she has beaten her challenger ovide lamontagne, who was endorsed by the tea party, and she, however, yeah ot had the endorsement of former today governor sarah palin. we are hearing reports of a possible recount. ovide lamontagne has the right to demand that since the victory was within 1.5% of the total votes cass. he has until 5:00pm tonight to decide whether he will seek that recount. the secretary of state's office

that ayotte's official margin of victory was 1600 and 67 votes. here you have the situation where the tea party candidate apparently has not pulled it out in terms of achieving this victory and yet kelly ayotte who had the endorsement of sarah palin and the pep establishment has. more on that as we get it. -- and the republican establishment has. more on that as we get it. >> with no answers that can explain why we can't get the rest of our money. 30 days, 30 days we all could be out of our homes. 30 days we could have no lights, no food nothing. megyn: that was the scene at a recent town hall on damage claims from the bp oil spill. angry victims giving claims czar ken feinberg a piece of their mind. phil keating is there. that looks like a packed house

behind you. what is the civility level in orange beach. feinberg is not known for silk gloves in dealing with folks. >> reporter: he has not arrived yet, however the mayor of orange beach, alabama did a great job in the first hour, he's been answering questions, organizing this meeting with mr. feinberg to keep it civil, don't be yelling and screaming, we don't want to give orange beach, alabama an a bad impression. those are the words of the mayor. most of the people here depend on the tourism industry and the gulf of mexico and they have not been paid since july. many of them i spoke with personally said when bp was in charge of paying the claims they at least got some checks. that was back in june. since the gulf coast claims has taken over they say in july, august into september it's been very difficult to get any money, and of course many of them are really depleting their savings. megyn: as of friday, after the

first three weeks of when this new claims office started writing checks, just 22% of the claims filed have been paid, so is that getting any better? >> reporter: it is getting better. it is now up to 26.3%, she's are the latest numbers that i just got about an hour ago from the gulf coast claim facility. in total now the amount of money that has been paid since ken feinberg has been in charge $151 million has been paid . that's for nearly 16,000 claims. but the total number of claims still stands at 60,283, and a lot of those people who have yet to be paid are right here, and they are all up and down the coast. you were showing that home in louisiana, over in florida today mr. feinberg, before he made his way towards this direction over in alabama, he met with the attorney general for florida. the concern in florida is people based on the proximity, eastern florida, southern florida,

central florida, no oil showed up but they saw revenue losses, media losses. he said he may be willing to divi the money out that way even though they weren't living along the coast. megyn: thank you, phil. the gop's new nominee for senate in delaware is getting the business there some -- from some of the media. some critics calling out christine o'donnell for what they call radical views. does crew saiding against porn or pushing for abstinence make you a wild-i'd crazy? we'll debate right after this break. a soldier's incredible story. after being blinded on the battle field. overcoming his disability to do something that has never been done before, and if you watch no other story today, please stay tuned for his. he and his wife are here live. plus, genetically engineered dinner, a fish that grows twice as fast as nature intended.

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top senators slamming the department of homeland security over the failure to secure our borders from a nuclear terror attack. the department has spent billions so far but still doesn't have a plan for that. news coming five months after a deadly rig explosion set off the bp disaster. boulder, colorado victims of the wildfire may be able to return home thanks to calmer winds. 160 homes were destroyed in that massive fire. we're keeping a watch on record breaking storms churning across the atlantic ocean. hurricane julia is now the strongest hurricane ever recorded this far east. off to the west another category four monster hurricane igor. where exactly are they headed. janice dean knows. >> reporter: and then we credit karl.

i want to take a look at igor from automatic tere space, megyn. this is from nass a. look at that storm. megyn: big. >> reporter: that last night was 155-mile per hour sustained wind storm almost a category 5, enormous eyewall, just spectacular. unfortunately it looks like igor is going to make a bull's-eye for bermuda let's take a look at the track on igor and see where it's going. category 4 still remains a major category 3 as we go into the weekend. crosshairs of bermuda keeping an eye on that. we have tropical storm karl across the yucatan pennsylvania, across the bay of campeche and making a second cross across mexico as a hurricane. and julia, we didn't think julia was going to do anything. and it's a category 4 storm.

this doesn't happen very often. it only happened back in 1926. and we've had four category 4 storms within the last 20 days. that has never happened. we are history in the making here. megyn: look how exciting -- excited she is. she loves this stuff. >> reporter: it's like my political season, my super bowl. as long as these storms stay in the ocean we don't care, we just don't want them to hit land. megyn: you enjoy that. see you, january is -- janice. >> reporter: you bet. >> ladies and gentlemen the people of delaware have spoken. [cheering] >> no more politics as usual. [cheering] megyn: delaware's new republican senate nominee chris own o'donnell proved naysayers wrong with yesterday's victory over the establishment candidates. already she has become a favorite punching bag for many in the media. one might even say she is the

new sarah palin. what is it about christine? leslie marshall is a sid today indicated talk show host and fox news contributor. and lars hrars on is a syndicated talk show host. i'm amazed how she went from a state candidate to a national figure in part one might argue because of the endorsement of sarah palin. look at this, this is the example of the picture that some of the media, including "the washington post" have chosen to use when running stories about christine o'donnell. i ask you, lars, is that an accident that this is the photo they chose? >> not at all. you know what they are trying to do, they are trying to paint her as a loan and -- loon and she is not, she is a sensible young lady. they are trying to pick unattractive photos of her, and perhaps a little bit dirty. i think this is dirty pool by the media. i think they are unhappy that an

old rhino has been put out pa pasture, you see the delaware party say we are not going to support our party's nominee. thank god john kroerpb cornyn sy will support her. megyn: after they got thousands of nasty phone calls that said you better reverse your position. thinks an example of the coverage she's got even. they call her, a candidate with a sketchy employment history who is disassembled about her education, defaulted on her student loan on her mortgage. sued a former employment for mental anguish. railed against the evils of masturbation. that's how they sum up this candidate. now is that -- does that put your finger on the scale at all. >> sure it is. >> megyn when you have -- actually, megyn, when you have a party of team, and actually even

the american people in the polls that say they are sick of lies, they are sick of money being pocketed, or paying for somebody's rent that is supposed to be campaign funds, this is what you get when you run for office whether you're christine o'donnell or anyone else, whether you're left or right, and she's right and she's right of right and this is going to happen from now until november. megyn: what is it about it that bothers you the most, leslie? >> megyn, aside from the fact i'm a liberal democrat, i love when women run and win honest side to be honest, but this is a person who i feel has -- i said it was a cold day in hell when i'd agree with karl rove, and it's chilly in hell today. i don't think she'll win. megyn: i'm not hearing you point to anything specific you don't like about her. okay,. >> i don't like people who lie tk- their -- i don't like people

who lie about their degrees, i don't like people who try and mix religion and morality with politics, i think the government has no place in our personal values in morality, that is a personal decision and should not be covered in the political sector. megyn: how did she do that? >> pornography, masturbation, premarital sex and gays which she wishes were not in the state of delaware. also issues regarding natzis anjous which i -- and jews which i found offensive. megyn: they said she said she wanted the natzis to kill je ws in world war ii. she was asked, it's never okay to lie oerb disrespectful. was would it okay to lie if you were hiding jews in your home and natzis came to the door. she said god would provide for

that. is this a spin that is unfolding? >> of course it is. you can't mention god to liberals, they don't believe. the fact is is this woman gave a personally sensible answer. >> that's not true. >> i know. tell me that leslie was really thrilled when sarah palin got the nomination for vice president, who should have been a poster child for tpepl tph*euss everywhere. she can have a job, a husband and family and run for politics and be successful and they hated her every single he minute and they hate the people that she endorsess as well. megyn: but in leslie's defense, lars, the political article and other articles do raise questions about christine o'donnell and her honesty with respect to her record. she had posted on her website that she was a graduate of fairly diction inch son university. she didn't get her college degree until two weeks ago. the public record showed she had no steady income, no savings, no investments no property. last year she reported making $5,800 in income.

people have questioned her financial history. the other thing is that she -- i want to make sure that i get this. the other thing is she claims she filed a lawsuit claiming that she suffered mental anguish at the hands of a former employee and she south almost $7 million in damages. do some people have a legitimate beef in saying is that the kind of republican we want to send to office, somebody who would sue for $7 million for mental anguish? go ahead. >> i don't know are lawsuits provided for in the united states constitution? of course. i could disagree with her personally about filing lawsuits over things like that. the fact is the american system of justice allows for it. as to the misstatements on her background i don't like these things either. i think what these folks really don't like is she's a real conservative. she stands up and says she wants kids to be taught about abstinence. she is not a fan of pornography. some of the liberals are writing

today, greg gutfeld, who says she is absolutely right about pornography interrupting people's relationships and screwing up relationships and they paint her as an extremist for that? megyn: is she so extreme because she thinks porn is bad for marriage and she doesn't feel much about masturbation either because she says it's lust out of marriage. >> i have too agree with her on porn i think it degrades women, it's not a political issue. the issue americans care about are the economy, jobs and military. when you look at her background in respect to the economy or jobs where she allegedly paid rent with campaign funds and did not pay her staffers that is a concern. not just for republicans, and for conservatives, for the people in the state of delaware. the concern for republicans obviously is like i said i agree with karl rove she is not going to win in november.

megyn: we have richard sock raoet tees -- we have socarides he's coming up at 2:15 with a different sper spebt tiff. you'll hear more about this in the next few weeks. almost out of nowhere senate majority leader harry reid has introduced an immigration bill. where did that come from? that critics are already calling amnesty. we'll show you how it will work. plus there is this. >> i felt tremendous heat when this experience started to subside i realized i'm standing up straight, where as before i was leaning on the bed in agony. megyn: the pope acknowledges a modern day miracle right here in the united states. coming up, the controversy behind the man who was healed. and new jersey governor chris christie on a crew said to save his state from going broke.

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>> you're not compensating me for my education or my experience. >> you know what then you don't have to do it. the simple fact of the matter is -- [applause] >> the simple fact of the matter is this -- >> teachers do it because they love it. >> well, and listen and teachers know what the pay scale is. teachers go into it nothing all that. megyn: that's new jersey's governor chris christie all fired up about state unions. the republican governor meeting some opposition to a plan that will cut union pensions in order he says to save them and hopefully restore what he calls

fiscal sanity to the state. steve sweeney is the new jersey democrat and he agrees with chris christie in large part to reform the pensions. there is some disagreement with payments that need to be paid into the pension fund. new jersey is facing billions of dollars of shortfall if you don't get something done to reform the pensions. it's not just new jersey, it's several states in the union right now. and the unions object to the proposed fixes, because they say the state cut a deal years ago and they want you and governor cristie to live up to that deal. why are they wrong? >> well, listen i'm not going to say they are wrong. megyn, there are some issues here. the state has to make payments toward the pension too. the governor made a comment. the governor and i had advanced

pension reform early this year, things i believed strongly and we need to continue to reform the pension system. when the governor says, well i'm not going to put any more money in the pension system because it's broke, does that make it any better? if we are asking employees to pay more, if we are asking everybody to step up the disagreement between the governor and myself is it can't be a one way street. you can't ask people to kick in more and you not pay any more and make the promise worse. megyn: they include repealing an increase in ten benefits that was approved years ago. eliminating automatic cost of living adjustments to the pensions. raising the retirement age to 65 from 60 and reducing pension pay outs to future retirees and requiring retirees to contribute more to their pensions. he says that will save the pensions. he says if you don't make the reforms the pensions are going bye-bye, it's not going to work to the advantage of the unions to do nothing. you are holding this up because

you say governor cristie needs to deposit millions of dollars into the pension forms. megyn: the problem is when we did the first pension reforms the governor in a good faith effort with me. and again i'm a conservative democrat labor leader that advanced pension reform. the governor made a deal. all of a sudden he started backing off the deal of making payments. he knew the budget was going to be bad this year, we know the economy is in trouble. in order for us to move forward you have to honor your commitments. it was his signature on that legislation just six months ago to make the payment, then he says well i'll make the payment if the economy doesn't get worse. well we know it's getting worse. so -- megyn: i follow you, we are a little deep in the weeds for i hi our national viewers who do not follow new jersey politics that closely. i want to talk about the reforms themselves, because the unions don't want these. they do want their cost of

living adjustment on their pension, they don't want the employees to have to pay more into the pensions. the average retired teacher in new jersey now is collecting -- many between 3 and $4,000 a month and chris christie is saying, that check is going away unless we make reforms. do you agree with him on that? >> i absolutely agree that we have to a just -- adjust how much the workers are paying. again it's not a one way street. megyn: you keep jumping to the two way street. let's just stay on the first avenue of the street first, you're a union guyana democrat and a fiscal conservative you say. >> yeah. megyn: let me get to you speak to the unions out there. do they need to accept compromises like the ones chris christie has proposed. >> they need to accept compromises. the contract is up, he's not even attempting to go negotiate these things. every governor in the state of new jersey has negotiated with these unions. the legislature is always there to go to. he could easily sit down and

start negotiating contracts. why he's not willing to do that and side track it and come to us first. again, eupl a labor person. megyn: is it because he's not getting the feedback from the unions that he needs or that the unions aren't bulging. you heard that teacher, that's a lot of the attitudes people have, i want my money, period. >> the governor and i went through a big fight with some of the unions and we accomplished our goal legislatively. i believe in collective bargaining. he has the opportunity to attempt to do his job like every governor before him did. he can always come to us. megyn: the unions have not really been that reasonable much that's how you guys got into this position promising them all sorts of great benefits that the state cannot live up to. i mean, i think maybe he realizes accurately that that is like banging your head against a brick wall. >> that is not fair. you know, the legislature, you know, there is so much blood on everyone's hands on what happened in new jersey.

not to get into the weeds, but everybody to get reelected gave everybody what they wanted. and it was wrong. they got benefits without funding them. as someone who understands pensions you can't do that. you just can't say it's going to be hard, it's going to be difficult. governor cristie is a tough guy, he has a tough skin, he works hard, why is he afraid? make the effort. he knows he has a partner that is willing to work with him and is not afraid to stand up to people and tell them they are wrong. megyn: all right, steve sweeney thank you so much for coming on. this is a debate we're seeing all across the country, folks. if you want to hear the other side governor chris christie will be a guest on kneel cavuto's program right here on fox news channel today at 4pm eastern. a massachusetts man crippled by excruciating back pain is suddenly healed. a miracle, devine intervention

or something else. the pope is weighing in. julia ban dare as filed this report. >> reporter: ten years ago a fused spinal cord wouldn't allow jack sullivan to walk let alone tend to plants in his garden. he prayed to john henry new man a 19th century catholic for help. >> i realized i i'm standing up straight. where as before i was leaning on the bed in agony. i was standing up straight with no pain. i yelled to the nurse i have no pain. >> reporter: he says the prayer was nothing short of a miracle. >> suddenly i felt tremendous heat, as if somebody opened the door of an oven. >> reporter: the vatican agrees with sullivan that the prayer to new man worked. after a lengthy investigation the pope is says to patify him

new man was a convert from the anglican church of england. a second miracle will be needed in order to name the cardinal a saint. >> i think what will be very hard after the past year would be if this were to be seen to be a triumph for this catholic thing. megyn: there are a maidsing -- amazing stories stories of folks that fight for our freedom. meet the army's only active duty officer who also happens to be blind as a result of his service. please stay tuned for this. plus, a day at the beach goes horribly wrong when a ticket turns into a tirade.

slaps allegedly thrown and a man reportedly called a wood chuck. all that on the docket in "kelly's court." >> i have it on video. >> i could give a dam yesterday you pennsylvania stupid. [bleeped]

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megyn: allegations of a new attempt to open a back door to amnesty for illegals in america. serve in the military or enroll in college. bam, you are a full-fledged u.s. citizen. that's the plan u.s. senator harry reid just put forward. >> choose common sense over discrimination. we'll match our policies with our principles and say in our

country everybody who steps up to serve our country should be welcomed. megyn: trace gallagher has more. >> reporter: bam, now immigration is front and center again. this is part of the defense authorization bill which approves the department of defense's budget. it was very controversial because the democrats wanted to put in that a repeal of don't ask, don't tell, the ban on being openly gay in the military. now you saw harry reid trying to up the ante by including the dream act, to get in legislation, certain illegal immigrants can become citizens. if you are under the age of 16, this will apply to you, and if you have been in the united states for more than five years. you set a couple of criteria. you had toite were join the military or you had to go to two years of college. the senate majority leader says now is the time. listen. >> i think it's important that

we move forward on this legislation i tried to work on. i know we can't do comprehensive immigration reform. i tried hard. but those republicans we had in the last congress have left us. >> reporter: senate minority leader mitch mcconnell stay democrats are trying to make this bill needlessly controversial. critics call this dream act back door tam necessary city. political analysts call this nothing but pure politics. they say president obama promised to move immigration we form in his first year in office. that didn't happen. now they have disappointed hispanic voters. thousand they are trying to move those people back in to vote. two years in college in california, that would run you

$1,248 for those two years. pretty good price for citizenship. megyn: you are not including the money you spend on beer and pizza. >> reporter: then there is that. megyn: the mothers of two american hikers dill detained in iran say sarah shourd's release gives them hope their sons will be freed. josh fattal and shane bauer were picked up along iran's border. they stand accused of spying. a charge their families deny. >> it's been a nightmare. it's been the most stressful year of anyone's life. but i say that as a free come and and someone who has had their liberty. , josh and shane have been in an unfair detention. we are happy the investigation is over.

and we are eager for the compassion of the islamic republic of iran to continue as they have let sarah out, we are hopeful that this is a prelude to the release of shane and josh. megyn: the mikers' family calling on ahmadinejad to bring their sons with him next week when he come to the u.s. to address the u.n. general assembly. a panel of security experts sowrngd the alarm on sharia law saying the obama administration is ignoring sharia law and its links to terrorism. catherine herridge is live in washington with this. what is this report trying to accomplish? >> reporter: the news conference lasted close to 90 minutes. and they released this report by the center for security policy. the primary goal was to present

the two members of congress, trent frank and congressman pete hoekstra so that they could have a debate and discussion on cap till about the findings on this report. the bottom line is they want to present an alternative point of view will sharia. you have to see sharia in a different way than other religious legal codes. you can't compare it they say to jewish law or to the catholic cannon because they say there is a central difference. under sharia it is the obligation of the followers time pose that laws on others. the or religious laws don't have that same component which makes them different. megyn: what are the conclusions here? >> that there are a number of ways they believe that sharia is an insidious influence in the united states and is slowly

gaining ground. and the report reads in part according to sharia, every faithful muslim is obligated to wage jihad whether violent or not against those who do not adhere to this code. the end result of this is the establishment of sort of global state or califate under which everyone will be governed by sharia. this they say is totally inconsistent with the u.s. constitution. megyn: thank you so much. this is a fox news alert. an about-face. the national republican senatorial committee saying they will support christine o'donnell in her bid to win the senate seat once held by joe biden. this after saying she might have to go it alone. it wasn't some who said that.

it was that same group who said she'll have to go it alone. her victory adds to the tea party candidates who upset the establishment choice. carl, as a political story, this is a great story it many like the alignments are all off. it's infighting and they flipped. so what is up with the apparent flip-flop in delaware? >> reporter: the nag aing republican senatorial committee raises hundreds of nilons of dollars t --hundreds of millions to country bite to candidates they want to see elected to the u.s. senate. they saw the moderate more electable in the fall and they said no money for her. so there was this huge, huge blitz of phone calls and

pressure on gop officials. and this morning they said, here is a crouton and they came up with $40,000. it's the maximum in actual dollars they can give a candidate. but they run millions of dollars in independent expenditure ads. in kentucky for rand paul, a tea party candidate, the national republican senatorial committee has just begun running an ad to benefit his candidates i. there is no pledge, there is month plan for such expenditures on behalf of christine o'donnell. and the reason is simple. officials say they have to prioritize to whom they give money so they get the biggest bang for their buck in competitive races. right now republicans need 10 senate seats to pick up the senate majority. their concern is that christine

o'donnell is not positioned in the polls to warrant giving her money over other candidates or for instance in kentucky, rand paul. should she get a huge boost of support and her candidacy be more credible in the eyes of the gop establishment they will give her more money. but right now it's a total of 42 grand. megyn: here is my question. why is she considered such an underdog if she is within 10 points of the democrat there? that's not some -- it's going to be a landslide for the democrats, she has no fighting chance, limits abandon her kind of matchup. >> reporter: the public policy poll that out now, a lot of

republican skeptics are suggesting the narrow gap this most recent poll suggests is perhaps a little bit tainted cord giving democrats -- giving republicans a small sense of security about o'donnell. the truth is o'donnell can be tremendously competitive. that's part of why she was able to win the republican nomination. that's why her backers, the tea party express and sarah palin think she'll win joe biden's seat. megyn: the nfl sending a memo to all of its teams following some questionable behavior on the part of the new york jets. ines sainz is a ports reporter and she says she was harassed by the jets last weekend. now they are reminding teams about equal access for women in

the locker room and reminding them they are supposed to behave in a respectful manner. did you see interview between ines and jon scott? could those jeans be any tighter? it was a fair question. and she handle it fine, and so did he. some democrats popping corks on the bottles of bubbly, salivating over the idea of running against a tea party pushover, christine o'donnell, but richard sock rid richard sot so fast. he's here for a warningw for his own party. two years ago he was on top of the world. then a battlefield blast blind him for life. but today he's back on top. stay tuned to meet captain scott

smiley and his wife. we have all had a few parking problems, but you probably haven't come face to face with a meter man like this one. >> i have it on video. >> i could give a damn less. i don't give a [bleep] about the job. see what that says? volunteer. you don't even know what that means. introducing one a day menopause formula. the only complete multivitamin with soy isoflavones to help address hot flashes and mild mood changes. new one a day menopause formula.

megyn: some democrats are predict a free ride on the road to november, at least when it comes to the senate. hoping the win for the tea party favorite christine o'donnell may cost the republicans their chance for winning back the senate. but our next guest is suggesting the orders for champagne may be premature. richard sock ride is former

assistant to former president bill clinton. that bucks the wisdom today which is this is a great thing for democrats because she can't beat the democrat in that state where castle could have. >> i think it's too soon to celebrate for anybody. this is such a volatile year. there was such excitement behind christine o'donnell. what the tea party is doing is nominating and getting behind people who are real change candidates. i think for the same reason people voted for barack obama two years ago. people are desperate for change. anything that's not the way we are doing things. because the system is so broken and people are so frustrated with it. i weren't rule her out. she has an unorthodoxed background. i thought last night and today she looked great on the morning shows. she looks inexperienced but she looks like a young sarah palin.

megyn: her folksiness and the way she deals with the criticism about the lame stream media, that what's they are going to do, and they will attack me for this rather than deal with me on the issues. that's a message sarah palin has used have much to her benefit. >> chris coons is a very experienced candidate. he's a moderate. people like him in delaware. so he's going to be tough to beat. but i think it's such a volatile year, we as democrats would not be smart to take anything for granted. i think that the tea party activists have to be give and lot of credit. i wish the democrats were nominating people to run as democrats who were such real fundamental change candidates. i thought one of the most interesting things, the "new york times" about 10 days ago when they put out endorsements for the state legislative races in new york state, said that in the new york state assembly the

thing to do in the primary was to vote for anybody who wasn't an incumbent. the most serious newspaper in the country said vote for anybody who is not the incumbent. megyn: i was going to ask you if that is an advantage for her here. they are hedging their bets. but might that inure to her benefit? it seems like the tea party loves nothing more than. >> buck the establishment whether it's the gop for the democrats. they are trying to tell washington, you don't onus, we don't do what you want to us do because you command it. >> this was a gift from them. look at the guy she was running against. he had perhaps the worst resume possible in this environment. he was a rockefeller republican.

he served as governor and lieutenant governor and served in congress. he was on the state and federal level old bad news. that's the only thing you needed to know in this race. the person she was returning against. when the republican national committee says we are not for you, that's going to create a lot of enthusiasm. megyn: it could help her. >> it will be a mixed blessing, all this tea party stuff. it will create a lot of excitement for republican candidates. but it's going to move the republican party and their candidates to the right. megyn: delaware is not a red state. are moderate, are independents in delaware. you don't have to think it's extreme her views. but you have to ask yourself whether moderate and independent in delaware will support christine o'donnell on her views of abstinence and masturbation.

they are saying she is a crazy christian righter. >> the smart thing for her to do now is run on a platform of throw the bums out. that's the only thing she should be talking about. she should knock out all this other fringy right-wing stuff about sexual pr sexual promise . i think people are allowed to move forward with their views. if you look at the tape, she looks like a teenager when she was talking about this. megyn: is it so bad to believe in abstinence and believe porn is bad? that's what the catholic church teaches. is that so bad for her? >> it should not be central in a race for the united states senate. she needs to run on a platform

of throw the bums outs. i think she'll attract a lot of support. megyn: i can't believe the number of times i have said the "m" word on this broadcast. >> the republican party in the presidential election will be much to the right. the republican primaries will be run on the right. this in many ways is good news for president obama. when he runs for reelection he will have to run against someone who is much more right wing. >> carter wanted to run against bush and he got reagan. president carter was excited about running against ronald reagan in 1980. be careful what you wish for. megyn: richard socarides. new troubles for the imam behind the mosque near ground zero. he is scheduled to appear in a

courthouse. but it has nothing to do with building projects. wait until you hear what feisal abdul rauf is accused much doing now. the feds are writing new rules for football sidelines.

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pending nominations as well. you are looking at a live pickture outside the courthouse. cameras allowed inside during the hearing where feisal abdul rauf is facing off with a new

jersey town who filed a lawsuit against him claiming is's a slumlord. david lee, we are minutes away from the court hearing. is the imam there? >> reporter: a spokesman said he would not attend this hearing and true to his word he has not shine and neither has his wife daisy kahn. but we did see the mayor of union city, new jersey. he arrived a few moments ago. yesterday at the news conference he called the imam a slumlord and unsoup plus. union city is 7 miles away from ground zero, the location two blocks away from where the imam would like to build this mosque and communities center. the mayor says what's happening at this courthouse has nothing to do with plans to build the mosque. the imam is being brought to court or his attorneys are because he's accused of being a

slumlord. megyn: are we we hearing from the tenants? >> reporter: the tenants are not here today. there are 16 apartments in the building. it was not expected the tenants would be here today. many have bedbugs we are told. often there is no hot water. the straw that broke the camels back is there is no fire alarm. we did speak with one of the tenants yesterday and she said the imam never comes by the building and his wife daisy kahn is very rarely seen. >> she comes here once a year. and we tell her, she says, okay, pay a little bit of rent and we don't have enough money for supplies and workers. megyn: we lost his shot. but he will follow up with that at the courthouse for us.

as he has news we'll go back to him for it. blind on the battlefield. one of our bravest americans losing his sight in a blast while serving in iraq. he could have spiraled into a tail spin of depression and self-pity. for a time he did. but he climbed his way out by his fingernails with the help of his beautiful wife and two children and his amazing story of perseverans. it's a must-hear for you today. he's here live with his beautiful wife and you will hear from them directly. he did not even write the ticket. but he gave one parker a piece of his mind. can she sue over a searing rant? that's what she plans to do. during the break you can go to foxnews.com/americalive and read up on this case before our early edition of "kelly's court" in just minutes. >> the parking attendant is giving me a ticket. i said hey, buddy, wait a seco

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"kelly's court" is back in session. on the docket, a meter meltdown for one touchy ticket cop. 68-year-old barry shore volunteer officer with a passion for parking enforcement. a woman gets out of her car to survey the sand for an exercise spot, and before you can say yoga mat officer barry is getting a citation. the woman talks her way out of it. but when her husband come back to confront him he goes ballistic. >> i don't give a [bleep] about the job. i lost my temper. see what that says? you don't even know what that

means. megyn: well, now she high school hired a lawyer, she and her husband, but can they sue? let's ask our panel lis weihl and jonna spilbor. >> first all. maligning woodchucks? that's horrible. megyn: the pennsylvania scooper woodchuck. >> you park for a minute or you are a minute late coming back from doing our errands and the guy is ready to write you a ticket. these guys have a tiny bit of power they like to use too much. this poor woman just came to drop the car off for a minute. was going to put the money in. she can sue for intimidation. emotional distress, she can sue for t tortitous assault.

megyn: this happened after the hubby came back to the scene to bother the meter man. the wifey went home to cry to hubby and hubby went down there all macho, you bothered my wife, pant meter man went off. so does the couple have anything to complain about? >> this was a couple hours later. volunteering to be a meter man is like wearing barbed wire boxer shorts. the husband caused his ruckus himself, then recorded it and now wants to profit from it? i don't think so. megyn: not only did hubby go back, testosterone-laden hubby. but this is what he says to the

meter man. i'm going to get your job. and this is according to the husband, the husband is admitting. i'm going to get your job. play against the meter man, this is -- >> this is after he felt his wife had been assaulted. he said i can't believe this guy was going to write me a ticket. he didn't write a ticket which to me means he knows we did was wrong. megyn: he said later i did loss my temper. but he said he was taunting me. you don't see that part of the video. the meter man says i should have walked away. can he get sued because he didn't? intimidation? >> what are the damages? she doesn't even have to pay a ticket. she probably didn't even put her daughter's quarter in the meter. what are her damages? she hasn't been damaged.

megyn: if you can sue every time a public official was rude to you i could sue almost every tsa officer out there. >> this is far beyond that. the expletives. the woodchucker, all of that stuff. that's way beyond. can you imagine being on a plane and a flight attendant lays off on you that way? megyn: did it happen on jetblue? >> the city is involved here, too. the city -- megyn: he was a volunteer. how are you going to pin it on the city? >> the city is responsible for their employees, even the volunteers. megyn: andrea and bill are going to cash in on the dimes of those who live in delray beach, florida. they are got to get the taxpayers money in delray beach?

>> then there will be copycats everywhere. they have suffered no damages. if they did suffer, they caused it. >> here is how the jury will pay them. in quarters. megyn: nice. >> they need them apparently. good debate. one final word for our viewers. press charges for that? good luck, bill. this is a guy volunteering to enforce the parking meter requirements. instead of giving him a hard time, why not move on. threats like i'm going to get your job to a meterman suggests a small person. hiring a lawyer to sue said meterman proves the point. coming up in 20 minutes, studio b with accept art smith. shep: lots of tickets to be worried about. all you have to do is not park there. remember the bullying to death case?

it came out of the state of massachusetts where a young girl was clearly bullied in a horrible way. but now there are some guys being charged with her death. one of them could spend life in prison. but he didn't physically do anything to her. legally hud that be? megyn: he lost his sight defending america. blinded by a blast on the battlefield in iraq. but he turned tragedy into an inspiring tale of pry up if. you have got to hear their story. just when he thought that miniature seat in the airlines coach section could not get any smaller, solid up for the sky rider.

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megyn: now to a truly remarkable story of overcoming adversity. a couple years ago captain smiley was on top of the world with a graduate of west point, but then when deployed to iraq, a bomb exploded in front of him, leaving him blind and his spirit nearly shattered. that was then, this is now. five years and two children later captain scotty smiley has gone on to take command of west point's warrior transition unit. he has a new book out called hope unseen. the story of the u.s. army's first blind active duty officer. we are honored to be joined by captain scotty smiley and his wife tiffany. i'm so honored to be sitting across from you. i'm so moved with your story.

catherine, it was back in april of 2005. >> april 2005. beautiful day, sunny, hot as always. we were receiving intelligence there were suicide car bombs on the streets and men willing to blow themselves up which is not good intelligence to be receiving. and i had to see something -- a gentleman in a vehicle that looked suspicious. and i tried to cordon him off and asked him to get out of his car, and that was the last thing i saw. megyn: the next thing you know weeks later you wake up in walter reed medical hospital stateside and find out at the time you were told you were partly paralyzed and completely blind. you talk in the book -- you write in the book about the devastation that even with you, west point graduate, army star, military star that you went through at that time, how low you were. take us back there. >> it was devastating it's not a

time i like to go back to. but my world was black literally and figuratively. my hopes and dreams were shattered and i had in my mind nowhere to turn. if it wasn't for my beautiful wife tiffany, my family and friends continuing to pray for me i would not be here today. that devastation i faced a choice on what to do with my life. i decided to move on forward. and to get out of bed and begin walking and to begin my life again. megyn: how as his wife at that time, the lowest of lows when he felt his life was over. if he was alive but he was a changed man. did you react? how did you try to lift his spirits to get him back to the place he is now. >> i was just there for him every day and praying for him and just praying that his conspiracy sit would come back. and the day that the eye doctor came in and told him he would never be able to see again he actually got out of bid and i was trying to hold him down and tea was fighting me.

he was like, i'm getting up. i was pushing the call bell, i need help. this guy is big, i can't hold him down. the nurses came and he said i'm going to take a shower and no one is stopping me. even though that was hard for me at that time, it give me hope that he had the will to drive on an was going to do something. megyn: how did you find that will, captain? it's sufficient a devastation. the loss of your sight and thinking you would be paralyzed in part forever. how do you find hope. a lot of people are struggling whether it's economic troubles or other troubles and they need inspiration. how do you find that place? ite was hard. it was very devastating. i have been raised a christian pretty much my whole life. a lot of the strength if not all the of it came from god. that christian faith through the prayers, the bible being read to me is what give me that hope that i knew my life was still something and i could glorify

and praise god blind or with sight. that gave me the motivation whether it was to take a shower and continue on active duty to still serve my country. megyn: you decided to get yourself out of that bed and move on. there were birthfalls. there is a time you write about in the book where you fell in a parking lot. >> it was hard. a lot of disabled individuals want their independence. a random day in palo alto i wanted to do everything by myself and they let me, and when i missed a turn, tried to retrack within a blind man retracking is not that great. i was left out in the sun for 45 minutes. i broke down and started crying. my life was ever changed. i had to realize it that i had to depend on others and depend on god. i think it was definitely a changing noinlt my life that i

understood what god allowed to happen in my life and the changes that had occurred. megyn: what effect do you think it has had on your two boys to see their father, the change in him, to see him come back from that low back on active duty training other officers. >> they are still pretty young so they just run around and they think he's cool. scotty is their hero. he particular them to the park and they -- he runs around with them. megyn: i understand he was able to help you in the hospital determine the fox of the baby. >> that temperature right. megyn: you still have the use of your hands. i want to talk about what you are doing that west point. you are the first blind officer object on active duty at west point and you are training who? >> i'm training wownded soldiers. i'm the company commander of the warrior transition unit at west

point, new york. it's my job to facilitate the recovery and rehabilitation of those soldiers, wounded, ill and injured. this is the same unit i was in at fort lewis. i realized the greatness of that unit and some of the short falls. we are making a lot of great changes in the company and seeing amazing results. i'm in charge of 150 men and women and we are definitely doing a great job. megyn: in addition you took part in the west point triathalon. you served solo in hawaii, jumped out of a plane. there is no stopping you. >> i like to have fun. i did give was blind. i didn't want it to be a change in my life. when i made that decision whether it's to get out of bed or waste was i wanted to move forward and still have a blast. i know that's why god placed me on this earth to have fun and enjoy his beautiful creation.

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designers say it could appeal to low-cost carriers. who are said people? no idea. a new land battle is brewing in the state of georgia over a community founded by former slaves. their family saying the government took the property to build an airfield and promised to gift back. that never happen. now those families are fighting to reclaim land that has literally gone to the birds. jonathan serrie is live at the wildlife refuge in georgia. >> reporter: it would take an act of congress before these people are allowed back on this land. an uphill battle but one they believe is fighting. this is a community founded by freed slaves after the end of the civil war. over the years it became a thriving economy as residents harvests the local shellfish. the defense department forced residents off the land to build

an army airfield in support of operations in world war ii. some believe local officials may have led the feds to their community to get them off the land. they also believe they received less compensation than their white neighbors. >> they wouldn't street somebody else like that. what else would it be? they didn't treat us like human beings. >> reporter: the government maintains the location of this air strip was a strategic one and it was based on fair market value. megyn: folks, we'll be right back. captioning made possible by fox news network

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